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And that had a powerful appeal, particularly to those who had been denied the choice to stay on at school, to go to university, to be something else, other than going down the pit.

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In politics, guts is all.

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And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow.

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And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale.

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Another example of that was that even during the economic problems of the 1945 government, we managed to carry out other aspects of our policy and other ideals. Through the establishment of national parks, for instance.

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Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.

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He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit.

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I remember a big meeting with the hosiery trade in Harold's ministerial room.

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I remember people who'd had a lot of hardship during the war. They'd thought we'd won.

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If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Politician

Born: October 6th, 1910

Died: May 3rd, 2002

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